A Geographical and Historical Description of Ancient Italy: With a Map and a Plan of Rome, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1826 - Ethnology |
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... fact has been the author's object in the work now presented to the public ; having himself ex- perienced the want of a compendious , yet more than elementary guide to the topogra- phical and classical antiquities of a country so ...
... fact has been the author's object in the work now presented to the public ; having himself ex- perienced the want of a compendious , yet more than elementary guide to the topogra- phical and classical antiquities of a country so ...
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... fact which has always been acknowledged , but also into that of the other Italian dialects , the first settlers of Italy and those of Greece were of the same race ; that as the latter country became more populous , its numerous tribes ...
... fact which has always been acknowledged , but also into that of the other Italian dialects , the first settlers of Italy and those of Greece were of the same race ; that as the latter country became more populous , its numerous tribes ...
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... fact , illustrative of the history of Genoa , was brought to light by the discovery of the brasen tablet , already noticed , in 1506 , near the city . This monument in- forms us , that a dispute having arisen between the Genuatæ and ...
... fact , illustrative of the history of Genoa , was brought to light by the discovery of the brasen tablet , already noticed , in 1506 , near the city . This monument in- forms us , that a dispute having arisen between the Genuatæ and ...
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... fact that river becomes suf- ficiently deep to be navigables . ( Plin . III . 16. ) tentia . Carrea Potentia , a town mentioned by Pliny , ( III . Carrea Po- 5. ) and of whose situation Cluverius professes him- self to be ignorant , is ...
... fact that river becomes suf- ficiently deep to be navigables . ( Plin . III . 16. ) tentia . Carrea Potentia , a town mentioned by Pliny , ( III . Carrea Po- 5. ) and of whose situation Cluverius professes him- self to be ignorant , is ...
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... , Caburro , & c . y Liguria did in fact form part of Cisalpine Gaul till the reign of Augustus . 7 See a Dissertation on the Passage of Hannibal over the Alps , p . 110 . bii . Forum Vibii , which Pliny places near the 32 LIGURIA .
... , Caburro , & c . y Liguria did in fact form part of Cisalpine Gaul till the reign of Augustus . 7 See a Dissertation on the Passage of Hannibal over the Alps , p . 110 . bii . Forum Vibii , which Pliny places near the 32 LIGURIA .
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Page 68 - Primus ego in patriam mecum, modo vita supersit, Aonio rediens deducam vertice Musas; primus Idumaeas referam tibi, Mantua, palmas et viridi in campo templum de marmore ponam propter aquam, tardis ingens ubi flexibus errat Mincius et tenera praetexit harundine ripas.
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